Five-time Olympic cycling champion Laura Kenny announces her retirement
Laura Kenny, Britain's most successful female Olympic athlete, has announced her cycling retirement.
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Laura Kenny, Britain's most successful female Olympic athlete, has announced her cycling retirement.
Five-time Olympic champion Laura Kenny said on Monday she is retiring from professional cycling.
LONDON :Five-time Olympic champion Laura Kenny's chances of being able to compete in the Paris Games this year are fading, according to British Cycling's Performance Director Stephen Park.
LONDON : Track cyclist Laura Kenny, Britain's most successful female Olympian, has set her sights on making the team for the Paris Games despite barely having competed in the past two years.
British Cycling is to ban transgender women from the female category of its competitions after a nine-month review and consultation. The female category will be «for those whose sex was assigned female at birth». Transgender women will be banned from taking part in competitive female events, but they can take part in the men's open category.
Laura Kenny says she is determined to fight for women’s sport to get an equal footing, calling the current imbalance «a shame». The 30-year-old, the most successful woman in Team GB history with five Olympic golds, said there was still significant inequality across sport. This is also illustrated in her own discipline of cycling.
Six-time Olympic medallist Laura Kenny thinks that the dynamics within Team SD Worx might be “tricky” now following a tense finish to the Strade Bianche Donne finish. The Italian road race was won by Demi Vollering in a sprint finish ahead of team-mate Lotte Kopecky, who won the race in 2022.
Britain's Neah Evans won gold, and her first major individual title, in the women's points race at the 2022 Track Cycling World Championships. She grabbed gold with 60 points after a thrilling finale, ahead of Denmark's Julie Leth (53) and American Jennifer Valente (51).